AGCA SAYS HE HAD 2ND GETAWAY CAR

Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, took the stand Tuesday and again changed his story about the plot to kill the pontiff.

The latest of Agca's almost daily revisions of his story prompted Judge Severino Santiapichi to ask, "How much truth are you telling, Agca?"

Santiapichi also asked the Italian Foreign Ministry to arrange the temporary transfer from a Turkish prison of Omer Ay, 33, who Agca named Monday as the third terrorist in St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981, the day the pope was shot.

Agca, who is serving a life sentence for shooting the pope, has been on trial since May 27 with four other Turks and three Bulgarians accused of plotting to kill John Paul.

In his testimony, Agca said Ay had left a second getaway car parked near St. Peter's Square.

In three years of investigation and more than three weeks of trial, Agca had talked only of a getaway car driven by Bulgarian airline official Sergei Ivanov Antonov, a defendant.

But Agca said Tuesday that if he and his fellow terrorists could not escape in Antonov's car to a truck with diplomatic license plates waiting to take them to Bulgaria, they would have tried to drive the second car to Vienna.

"The state has spent so much money in investigations at St. Peter's Square, inspections, checks, and now everything changes," Santiapichi said. "Will you assure me then that Antonov really was waiting for you for the getaway?"

Agca was silent for a minute. Then he said, "I thought for a moment they wanted to drop the Bulgarians," a statement seeming to indicate he thought someone wanted him to drop references to Bulgarians from his testimony.

Agca also changed his account of events leading up to the shooting to include Ay and the car he said Ay rented in Munich with false documents.

According to the new version, Ay drove Oral Celik, the other member of the assassination team, to Milan on May 9 to meet Agca and Gray Wolves members Omer Bagci and Ozdemir Vahdettin, who drove from Switzerland to deliver Agca's pistol.